French Agriculture Minister Stéphane Travert confirmed at the Agriculture Council in Brussels on 16 July that he was proposing Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle as the EU candidate for the post of Director General of the United Nation’s Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) with effect from 1 January 2020.
Until the end of June, Geslain-Lanéelle was the director general for the economic and environmental performance of enterprises at the French Ministry of Agriculture and,...